Sale 9460
Los Angeles
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12 - 14 March 2001
Price realised
USD 8,812
Estimate
A LOUIS XV POLYCHROME-PAINTED TABOURET WITH FAUX OCELOT UPHOLSTERY The square seat over shaped apron centered by painted acanthus element on cabriole legs with scrolled knees (redecorated) 17in. (44cm.) high, 23in. (58.5cm.) wide
Provenance
Elsie de Wolfe, Ballroom, 'Villa Trianon', Versailles
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Literature
Connolly, Cyril and Jerome Zerbe. Les Pavillons: French Pavilions of the Eighteenth Century, p.186.
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